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As these estimates are based on a household survey, they are subject to a degree of sampling error. This is particularly true of the estimates for Scotland and Wales which are based on a smaller sample of households.

The total number of households in each Council Tax band shown here are different to the figures based on the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) valuation list.

While the Expenditure and Food Survey estimates shown here are grossed to population control totals (expressed in terms of numbers of individuals), the estimated number of households in each band will not be exactly the same as the numbers from the VOA list.

Number of households by income decile group, council tax band, and country2004-05 to 2006-07
Thousands
	Decile groups of all UK households ranked by equivalised disposable income
	Bottom	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	Top	H ouseholds
England
Band A	632	735	717	604	517	458	353	258	166	62	4,502
Band B	456	490	440	487	452	456	444	330	356	196	4,107
Band C	382	396	393	430	457	471	459	508	451	330	4,276
Band D	322	258	291	328	355	368	465	494	550	548	3,981
Band E	112	96	110	105	140	181	200	294	329	420	1,987
Band F	70	38	42	41	58	74	105	107	143	308	985
Band G	24	19	19	15	26	36	40	73	106	299	658
Band H	1	2	1	2	3	4	3	9	10	57	92
All bands	2,000	2,033	2,014	2,012	2,007	2,048	2,069	2,074	2,112	2,220	20,589
Scotland
Band A	61	69	63	68	56	42	31	15	12	2	418
Band B	58	69	68	80	75	52	58	34	29	9	531
Band C	'39	27	31	37	34	48	37	42	33	7	336
Band D	18	28	27	30	26	40	40	43	35	21	309
Band E	16	10	14	22	23	20	44	53	51	26	278
Band F	14	10	9	9	11	18	10	21	18	29	149
Band G	4	4	3	0	9	4	8	14	12	48	106
Band H	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	8	13
All bands	212	218	217	246	235	224	226	224	190	150	2,140
Wales( 1)
Band A	34	31	26	20	25	13	9	6	5	1	172
Band B	44	39	45	45	45	31	13	21	9	4	294
Band C	20	28	27	29	35	27	30	19	16	3	236
Band D	25	27	31	28	27	29	32	25	31	19	275
Band E	10	9	17	12	14	18	9	15	28	12	142
Band F	5	4	2	0	5	3	8	10	14	10	61
Band G	1	0	• 4	2	3	2	3	8	5	10	39
Band H	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	2	8
All bands	139	138	152	136	155	124	104	104	112	62	1,226
1 Data for council tax band 'I', the highest band which is used in Wales only, are unavailable Note: These estimates are based on the Expenditure and Food Survey, which uses a sample of households, and therefore the number of households in each council tax band will not be strictly consistent with figures based on the Valuation Office Agency valuation list Source: Expenditure and Food Survey, Office for National Statistics

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